Adding xorg-x11-drv-libinput to the Desktop's set of default packages

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 5:55 AM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> On 12-01-15 11:48, drago01 wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:47 AM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> As explained here:
>>>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LibinputForXorg
>>>>>
>>>>> We want to move the input stack for xorg over to libinput, the plan
>>>>> is to do this move gradually, starting with moving GNOME / the
>>>>> desktop product over.
>>>>>
>>>>> Upstream GNOME is already working on adding support for
>>>>> xf86-input-libinput's configuration API, once that lands
>>>>> xorg-x11-drv-libinput should be added to the Desktop's set of default
>>>>> packages, hence this mail.
>>>>>
>>>
>>> One question though ... if both libinput and synapics are installed
>>> which one will X pick? (asking because of upgrades).
>>
>>
>> xorg-x11-drv-libinput will be preferred over the old evdev / synaptics
>> drivers if both are installed.
>
> OK.

So from the thread on devel@, it seems KDE is going to have issues
with libinput in the F22 timeframe.  While GNOME is the base DE for
Workstation, KDE was supposed to be a focus area for Workstation with
this release.  We have the qt theme under review already, etc.

How does this all play out?  Aren't we going to face the same problems
here that the KDE spin does?

josh